Take it from me. You haven’t lived until you’ve accidentally said “tea bagger” instead of “tea party” to a classroom full of college seniors.

Call it a Freudian slip. Or sleep deprivation. Or the result of having ice cream cake for lunch. Whatever, but I’ve really never seen so many shocked, then gleeful faces.

And believe me, there is really no way to recover a lecture after a comment like that.

Luckily, my students seemed more amused than offended, and at least a couple people had no idea what was funny. And I’m pretty sure they will never ever forget today’s lecture on Burkean analysis. That’s something, right?

Freudian slips aside, are there even any politicians today not involved in a little TBing and Weinergates? Seems right on par with the clowns we have in office, regardless of party. If anything, you educated the kids on what politicians really spend their days doing …. because it certainly hasn't been anything productive in the last 20 years.

To provide a little insight to those that may not be in our class. We had just turned in a 12 page paper, (for which sleep deprivation had killed any chance of most of us being productive that day) and to hear my dear Dr. Shawna refer to the "tea party", contemptuously yet passionately as "the tea baggers," was just the comic relief we needed to end a stressful week and the perfect send-off to a holiday weekend. "…That's it i cant continue, class is over for the day."